 | 1820 - 774 pàgines
...time the colleague, and latterly the enemy of Bolingbroke, Pope did not think so highly. " Lord Oxford was not a very capable minister, and had a good deal...talk idly with them almost every night, even when hit all was at stake." ' He talked of business in so confused a manner, that you did not know what... | |
 | 1820 - 760 pàgines
...time the colleague, and latterly the enemy of Bolingbroke, Pope did not think so highly. " Lord Oxford was not a very capable minister, and had a good deal...almost every night, even when his all was at stake." ' He talked of business in so confused a manner, that you did not know what he was about ; and every... | |
 | Joseph Spence - 1820 - 324 pàgines
...knows more of Europe than perhaps all Europe put together at present. — The pame. OXFORD. Lord Oxford was not a very capable minister, and had a good deal...almost every night, even when his all was at stake. — The same. That Lord talked of business in so confused a manner that you did not know what he was... | |
 | Joseph Spence - 1820 - 318 pàgines
...knows more of Europe than perhaps all Europe put together at present. — The same. OXFORD. Lord Oxford was not a very capable minister, and had a good deal...almost every night, even when his all was at stake. — The same. That Lord talked of business in so confused a manner that you did not know what he was... | |
 | Joseph Spence - 1820 - 322 pàgines
...knows more of Europe than perhaps all Europe put together at present.—The same. OXFORD. Lord Oxford was not a very capable minister, and had a good deal...them almost every night, even when his all was at stake.—The same. That Lord talked of business in so confused a manner that you did not know what... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 470 pàgines
...friend as a philosopher than as a statesman. " Lord Oxford," he said, in conversation with Spence, " was not a very capable minister, and had a good deal...almost every night, even when his all was at stake. That lord talked of business in so confused a manner that you did not know what he was about; and everything... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 482 pàgines
...friend as a philosopher than as a statesman. "Lord Oxford," he said, in conversation with Spence, " was not a very capable minister, and had a good deal...almost every night, even when his all was at stake. That lord talked of business in so confused a manner that you did not know what he was about ; and... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 476 pàgines
...friend as a philosopher than as a F 2 statesman. " Lord Oxford," he said, in conversation with Spence, " was not a very capable minister, and had a good deal...club almost every day, and would come and talk idly witn them almost every night, even when his all was at stake. That lord talked of business in so confused... | |
 | William Charles Townsend - 1844 - 492 pàgines
...the time that could not comprehend unavoidable engagements he dissipated in such as were superfluous. He used to send trifling verses from court to the Scriblerus Club, and would come and talk idly almost every day and night with them, even when his all was at stake.... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1848 - 902 pàgines
...friends indifferent to Ins full. " Lord Oxford," said Pope, " was not a very capable minister, and hud a good deal of negligence into the bargain. He used to send trilling \erses from court to the I Scnblerus Club almost every day ; end would come and talk idly... | |
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was not a very capable minister, and had a good deal of negligence into the bargain. He used to send trifling verses from Court to the Scriblerus club almost every day, and would come and talk idly with them almost every night, even when his all was... 
